As the commentators in a recent American updating of the traditional Passover Haggadah point out, people who identify as Jews have a much easier time these days thinking of themselves as choosers than as chosen.
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Sophia Rosenfeld
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025
Just as decisions should be devolved to the smallest competent unit rather than centralized bureaucracies, customers — as the ultimate arbiters of value — must be empowered to judge what truly serves their needs and dignity.
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Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Moreover, clinicians are winning more than 70% of IDR disputes because independent arbiters recognize that insurers are underpaying.
Tests can be flaky because of timing issues, non-deterministic UI behavior and race conditions, or brittle due to selectors being tied to CSS classes or DOM elements that constantly change.
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Ethan Pronev,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
National selectors often look to major league teams for star players.
Judges are obligated to give high deference to arbitrators and are expected to uphold awards so long as the award was not procured by fraud and the arbitrator didn’t fail to consider relevant evidence or follow basic legal principles.
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Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
12 May 2026
But an 1899 decision by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States drew the border along the Essequibo River largely in favor of Guyana.
Democrat Tom Steyer is in third place attemping to close the gap by utilizing a late surge in Democratic voters.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
5 June 2026
In the case of the Legend of Aang, hackers may have had access to Vision Media’s server, which houses catalogs of several movies watched by awards voters for an extended period.
For all the talk of circularity, waste workers—the plastic pickers in Brazil, secondhand retailers in Ghana, textile sorters in India, to name a few—were largely overlooked.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
There would be the pickers going through drawers looking for a good deal, and the antique-loving Southerners hoping to find a set of Chantilly silver to complete their 12-person table.
In 2026, from a field of thousands of entries spanning every major whisky-producing nation, the judges awarded exactly 726 medals across the whisky and whiskey categories.
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Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
In practice, reformers say, bail amounts have largely been set by vibes, with judges given broad leeway to use discretion.
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